The 21st International ESCAP (European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) Congress 2025 cover topics such as:

• CLINICAL DISORDERS
  • Neurodevelopmental disorders, e.g. ASD, ADHD, Tic disorders
  • Intellectual disability, Learning disorders, Communication disorders
  • Mood and anxiety disorders
  • Conduct and oppositional defiant disorder
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Psychiatric emergencies, Suicide and DSH
  • Adjustment disorders
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Eating disorders
  • Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
  • Sexual and gender identity disorders
  • Behavioural disorders of early childhood
  • Attachment disorders
  • Substance misuse and related disorders
  • Liaison child and adolescent psychiatry
• NEUROBIOLOGY AND GENETICS
  • Neuropsychology
  • Genetic risk factors
  • Animal models
  • Psychoimmunology
  • Neurophysiology
  • Neuroimaging
  • Gene-environment interactions
• SERVICES, TREATMENTS AND ADVOCACY
  • Service Evaluation and measuring outcomes
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service models
  • Multidisciplinary teams
  • Advocacy
  • Interagency working and primary care
  • Psychotherapies
  • Childrens Rights
  • Parenting programmes
• DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORIES AND OUTCOMES
  • Infant psychiatry
  • Risk factors and epidemiology
  • Transcultural themes
  • Looked after children
  • Abuse, trauma and neglect
  • Children of parents with mental illness
  • Migration
• PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TRAINING
  • Professional Development
  • Child and Adolescent psychiatry training
  • Academic child and adolescent psychiatry
  • Managing stress
  • European research networks

Who should Attend

Child & adolescent researchers and clinicians.